Category: Science

People with a rare disorder that causes excessive burping may benefit from an unlikely treatment: singing therapy. A new study suggests that this singing approach

BERLIN — A Roman-era mass grave discovered underneath a soccer field near Vienna holds the skeletons of young men from all over the Roman Empire

Brazil is home to some of the world’s largest aquifers, yet many of those groundwater stores — which provide 55% of the country’s water —

An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ancient

A dog-sized carnivore and mammal ancestor that lived around 236 million years ago seems to have given birth to live young, a new study suggests.

Deep-sea divers take careful measures to avoid “the bends,” a painful condition where gas bubbles form in divers’ blood and tissues when they ascend from

Long-term memories may not “stick” in the brain for the reasons we thought, a study of mice in artificial hibernation reveals. Instead of relying on

Losing mature trees from a neighborhood may be a matter of life and death, a new study suggests. The research, published Aug. 5 in the

Between outbreaks of explosive diarrhea leading to nationwide lettuce recalls and cases of Salmonella tied to eggs and jalapeños, foodborne diseases in the United States

Gluons do more than hold protons together. They may also help define the proton’s identity through a quantum property called baryon number.

The sun frequently flings plasma into space, but sightings of such eruptions on other stars are rare. Magnetic fields could explain why.

The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.

BERLIN — Nearly four dozen skeletons recovered from a deep well in the Croatian city of Osijek may be the remains of people who perished

Scientists have engineered a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that cuts reaction delays in robots by over 10 times without using additional computing power. Many